This MA thesis deals with the subject of translating emotional words and emotional language. The thesis is an attempt to display the differences in the emotion expression in different languages on a sample consisting of German poems and their translations into Croatian. The body for the analysis comprised of 13 songs by Nelly Sachs, as well as the emotional words and emotional language found in them. The therein expressed emotions that are: love, longing, suffering, hopelessness and sadness.
After the analysis and comparison of different instances of emotion expression in these songs and their translations, it was concluded that there are tendencies in translating emotions in poetry: words that express emotions directly are translated by means of literal translation, and the words that describe or evoke emotions mostly by transposition, synonymy or functional equivalent.